I'm not depressed, but I have no motivation to do anything. I think it's partly because I have difficulty concentrating in general. (I get frustrated that I can't concentrate, and then I basically "give up" and lose motivation to do things.)

Anyone else have days like this?

What do you do to make yourself motivated again?

[violetgreen]

Yup. That's today...took care of only what I had to do, nothing else. I'm anxious, and it's cold outside, the sidewalks and streets are full of crusty snow, so it's iffy to take a walk. I'll start coking supper pretty soon. Doing just one little thing after another. Tomorrow will be a fresh start, and I'm looking forward to seeing a Met Opera simulcast in the afternoon. Are you looking forward to something?

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Doesn't matter if I'm hypo or depressed, either way I feel like crap and don't come out of my room. When I'm hypo I get hyper focused on my phone to the point where my thumbs hurt! I'm looking at it aaaalll day long and switching from app to app. I also get dysphoric easily and irritated. Makes me want to distance myself from my family just for their sake!

Edit: totally got off topic. But yea as I said I sit in my room so I don't do a thing around the house or cook! I come out of my room to use the bathroom and that's about it.

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[oceanmermaid]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

I'm not depressed, but I have no motivation to do anything. I think it's partly because I have difficulty concentrating in general. (I get frustrated that I can't concentrate, and then I basically "give up" and lose motivation to do things.)

Anyone else have days like this?

What do you do to make yourself motivated again?

Sometimes I just move if it is to go outside look at a tree or feel the wind or simply notice nature. We almost have to find the small will to snap ourself out of it............to call a friend or color or revisit a hobby.......or begin a hobby. Just rambling. OceanMermaid

[Ocean Swimmer]

Me too. I find out when it's high tide. Then I get ready to swim.
I can only go 3 days per week when my guy is working.
This weekend I'm looking forward to going upstairs to the new house.
I'm going to see if I can paint.
The dog is going. And my cat. That's enough.

[gina_re]

Today felt like the longest day of work. Something about Fridays that I just can't keep up sometimes. So needless to say I wasn't motivated to do that. There are things in my head that I would like to do, but actually doing them seems impossible. Even just taking a shower seems like too much work. So I stay in my messy black hole of a room (thanks rx for this!) and veg out watching tv.

[BastetsMuse]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

I'm not depressed, but I have no motivation to do anything. I think it's partly because I have difficulty concentrating in general. (I get frustrated that I can't concentrate, and then I basically "give up" and lose motivation to do things.)

Anyone else have days like this?

What do you do to make yourself motivated again?

DAYS? Try weeks, months... and yet I'm not depressed as I understand it. I take an AD and I take Adderall for my ADD, plus a mood stabilizer.

What I try to do to motivate is to do things in small pieces, then reward myself. It might work for you.

[pirilin]

I'm the president of the the UUUCA. United Unmotivated Underachievers Club of America.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

^^^lol!!!

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[ComfortablyNumb5]

Originally Posted by BastetsMuse

DAYS? Try weeks, months... and yet I'm not depressed as I understand it. I take an AD and I take Adderall for my ADD, plus a mood stabilizer.

What I try to do to motivate is to do things in small pieces, then reward myself. It might work for you.

My longest stretch is 6 months. My house got so bad it looked like something off the show hoarders. I had to have family come help me. It was humiliating! My brother took a friggin pic and showed our friend. I wanted to kill him. That was probably my worst depression/dysphoric phase. And it didn't help that my pdoc was putting me on all these meds that just made it worst until I started trileptal and finally snapped out of it

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[smallwonderer]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

What do you do to make yourself motivated again?

Depression is always the worst for me after mania - last time I was having a really hard time, I practiced both GTD (getting things done) which is a self-help/productivity book by david allen that suggests you should take everything and break it into tiny pieces. The other thing I do is I use very finegrained todo lists - found the website Trello works really well I credited it with pulling me out of my last depression. Even if I felt like I hadn't accomplished anything/couldn't do anything, there's boxes to check and things to say "yes I did this" - my recommendation would be to just make some easy boxes to check to give yourself momentum and try to find the things you can do even if you can't concentrate...

I find when i'm depressed that it *seems* like nothing is getting done but i'm actually chipping away at it, a little bit every day. Like the electrical outlet covers in my living room have been off since i aborted a painting job a few years ago and i recently got some screws from the dollar store and put them back on. Such a small thing but it seems like a triumph when i'm depressed. Today i took my dog in to the vet to get her overgrown nails trimmed and it was quite an ordeal but it is so nice to have her padding around silently and not hear her nails scraping on the floor, condemning me.

I'm certainly doing *less* than i would like, but i'm not doing nothing.

[Row Jimmy]

I think starting small helps. Then you build from there. Sometimes, the enormity of the task overwhelms us. There are times when I don't feel like going to the gym but I go anyway and I always feel great afterward. Or it could be something like planning a good dinner, going out to shop for it, and then cooking it up.

Keep the vision a bit more focused - the wider view is more long term.